| 19:48 | topi` | jnettlet: the UBOOT doesn't recognize the GPT partitioning I did for the SD card. The uboot was compiled on 24 May 14 |
| 19:49 | topi` | it even has "Solid Run" branding :) |
| 19:49 | jnettlet | topi`, yeah I put that there. |
| 19:50 | topi` | :) |
| 19:51 | topi` | jnettlet: mkpart swap 98 99 |
| 19:51 | topi` | oops, wrong pastebuffer contents |
| 19:52 | topi` | jnettlet: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,4931 |
| 19:52 | topi` | in this thread, they're suggesting to place just the /boot sector on the legacy MBR, and then use GPT partitioning for everything else |
| 19:52 | topi` | it's possible to define MBR *and* GPT |
| 19:55 | jnettlet | seems complicated. What are you hoping to gain by GPT |
| 19:55 | topi` | "As far as I can see, GPT partition support was added to the u-boot code base in late 2008 so you'd think that it was stable by now! " |
| 19:55 | topi` | jnettlet: our other products use GPT, so it's for continuity and simplicity :) |
| 19:55 | topi` | this is the company's first non-x86 product I'm developing now with the HB |
| 19:55 | jnettlet | ah okay |
| 19:56 | topi` | but it probably increases the UBOOT binary size. |
| 19:56 | topi` | anyhow, MBR is quite a mess if you need more than 4 partitions |
| 19:56 | topi` | it's all deeply legacy stuff |
| 19:57 | topi` | and, there's the 2TB disk size limit with MBR (which we don't hit, luckily) |
| 19:59 | jnettlet | the uboot binary size isn't a problem |
| 20:00 | topi` | the defconfig that you supply with linux-linaro-stable-mx6 has EFI_PARTITIONING enabled, so that'll work just fine |
| 20:00 | topi` | I think I'll just create an entry to the MBR for the boot partition. |
| 20:06 | jnettlet | topi`, I think you may need to enable the CONFIG_CMD_GPT option in uboot. Then the gpt command in the u-boot shell should then hopefully load the partition table |
| 20:17 | jnettlet | topi`, you need to enable two options to get GPT to build. |
| 20:20 | jnettlet | maybe three |